Firelands is finally behind us, the Hour of Twilight is at hand! As usual, Majik and Kurn share their take on the new patch, although be warned that what they think is interesting about your class PROBABLY ISN’T, so go check out the actual patch notes!

We also did a livestream of the recording process, which meant that we got to interact with some awesome people in the chatroom while we did the show. Keep an eye on Twitter, we’ll announce if we’re livestreaming next week. If we are, here’s the URL: http://www.livestream.com/majikpugs

Kurn will randomly pick a #sadmooseftw person and Majik will randomly pick a #kurngoingret person. The two of us will then have a Magicka duel and whoever wins the duel, will have their randomly selected person win a FREE COPY of the game Magicka.

Speaking of Twitter, thanks to the following people for chiming in about what they’re most looking forward to in 4.3:

@stoppableforce: Transmogrification, pretty much hands-down my most anticipated feature.
@mageic: looking forward to new stuff, just feeling a bit stale currently, so new things to do will be fun
@matticus: New raid content. Done with Firelands.
@psynister: The new DMF and reduced exp requirements to get through OL/NR.
@BeruHeals: MOAR BOSSES TO BLOODLUST!
@Velystia: Transmog, new dungeons, new raid… a reason to log in again. 🙂
@MathiasSchnell: The Fangs of The Father questline and rewards! 😀
@DuridJaymz: Looking forward to… hmmm… Actual “difficulty” and “choice” in the feral rotation!!!
@hestiahdruid: Transmogging gear, and kicking Deathing’s ass.
@kenakabones: 4.3 – transmog, new 5 mans *they’re fun* and dragon soul!
@Kamilla_of_ET: my wings!!! I can’t wait to have my wings again hehee 🙂 yay for T6!

Ladies and gentlemen, one year ago, we embarked upon a crazy adventure that has led to a lot of laughter, some bleeped profanity, many late nights, a few early mornings and, well, a LOT of time talking about WoW together and with various guests.

Episode 42 is our one-year anniversary episode and it is totally packed with awesome and clocks in over two hours in length, but it’s absolutely worth it. Why’s that? It’s because we contacted some of our guests from our most-downloaded episodes and somehow convinced three of them to make their returns to the show!

Apotheosis of Eldre’Thalas is a 25-man 6/7 HM Alliance guild and seeking a retribution paladin and a hunter, so check us out and apply now!

Monolith, a 25-man 7/7 HM Horde guild on the US-Llane server, is seeking a DPS death knight.

Business Time of Moonrunner is a 10-man 6/7 HM Alliance guild, seeking two quality players, preferably on the Conqueror token (priests, paladins, warlocks!).

#sadmoose shoutouts! A bunch of people tweeted us with the #sadmoose hashtag and got shoutouts on the show. Here they are on twitter — follow them! 🙂

@Technophobia: Why is #sadmoose sad?@FFPMMarc (MegaCode): #sadmoose@RandyLite: Do previously tweeted #sadmoose count?@YAWoWB (Rooster): what kind of #sadmoose ? Any #sadmoose or a very specific #sadmoose ? Does the #sadmoose have to be WoW related or IRL?@JoeEgo812: The sweet bleating sound of the #sadmoose@DangDangFool: Sinuses? #SadMoose@PotatoeWoW (extra shoutout for #craw!): Nerfs ftw. Heroics out of reach for my guild. Heroic Ragnaros? Impossible anyway, so idc how hard he is. #sadmoose#craw@gumhead: I love the #sadmoose podcast…. errrr….. I mean the Blessing of Frost podcast.@facemauler: just to irritate Majik even more… #sadmoose

And we also got a tweet after we recorded the show:

@badtauren: was a #sadmoose till I found BoF on stitcher. Its about time yay!

And @DSatt57 sent us a Tip of the Week! “When doing the Harvest Week quests the first day, get 25 of each main ingredient. Start in SW, go to IF, back to SW, then Darn.”

Once again, thank you to all our listeners for your support, interest and interaction with us over the last year. Without you, we probably would have given up on this nutty idea back around Episode 6. We hope you’ll stick around for many more episodes to come!

Welcome to Episode 41 of Blessing of Frost! This week, our topic is Heroic Ragnaros. With just 2.5% of Firelands raiding guilds at 7/7 HM (according to guildox.com as of this recording), does this constitute a problem? What about the fight itself, are the mechanics just that challenging? Majik and Kurn explore the concept and design of Heroic Ragnaros this week.

Next, the full video in question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW_Lv0r-l4c (NOT SAFE FOR WORK!) Note that the contents of this video are not condoned by Kurn and Majik. We do not approve of this kind of language and are merely linking it so that you have context.

Episode 39 shows up (a little late in the day) and discusses the happenings of BlizzCon 2011! No, Kurn and Majik weren’t there, but that doesn’t mean there’s not a lot to say about the weekend’s events!

Another holiday is upon us and, yet again, Kurn and Majik tackle the various achievements related to the holidays. Of course, shortly after recording the episode, Wowhead came out with a guide that shows that the holiday has changed to remove the majority of the randomness from it!

From October 18th, 2007 (!), Toga, Tia (as Tweetybird) and Kurn (as Madrana) take down the Headless Horseman!

And afterwards, in Shattrath, with Toga on his fancy new broom, Tia as a leper gnome and all of us with pumpkinheads:

Some awesome people who shared their Hallow’s End stories:

@SturgarHawkwind: Just before WotLK hit, during Hallow’s End, I tried transferring my main. Got stuck in limbo for two weeks; missed most of the event as well as all of the end of the Scourge Invasion. I still curse myself for not getting a Vampiric Batling.

@Seraph1337: I killed that bastard 400+ times when the mount was a drop. Never saw it until bag loot, and then everyone had one. 🙁

And, finally, Kurn got nominated for a Stopie Award! While Blessing of Frost did not, sadly, get enough nominations for best podcast or anything of the sort, Kurn got nominated for “Loudest Voice on Twitter“! Please head over to vote in the Stopies and vote for Kurn! We also recommend Convert To Raid in the categories they’re nominated in — Zhug, Koltrane and the others put together a great show every week. 🙂

Episode 37 is here, complete with obscure references to the movie Clerks, as well as some talk about burnout as it pertains to WoW. Our special guest this week is Mylana, a combat rogue from Choice of Skywall (currently 3/7 25-man HM, looking for DPS and healers!).

“(Burnout is) caused by a lack of tangible goals, and not meeting your expectations.”

“You need something to work towards, and something to reward your effort, or the lack of purpose starts to weigh heavily.”

Causes of his own personal burnout: “1) Guild taking a break 2) Being in a leadership position and dealing with all the problems 3) WotLK release and only Naxx to raid. 4) Mid-tier content repeatedly being dailies and heroics, when you don’t care about dailies, and don’t do heroics. 5) Feeling burnout, but also feeling like you’re committed to helping a group of people, so you keep going, and burnout gets worse. I’ve experienced all of those over the years, and probably more. But I’m still here, and not feeling too shabby at the moment.”

We also had a bunch of other people chime in:

@Holynightt: “honestly 4.1 was my burnout phase. I took thr troll heroic tier off. Came back 2 weeks before 4.2 and my guild was totally different cause a lot of raiders left after 2 tiers of bwd and bot. I got my taking spot handed right back to me but some of members still grudge me that I had my spot handed back.”

@walkstweets: “Burnout: placing far too much emphasis one activity as a method of interaction, personal fulfillment, or mask for deeper troubles.” And later, “I had to switch guilds when I was raiding with a PST-based guild (while living on the East Coast). It was awful.”

@_vidyala: “I avoid burnout by delegating, taking occasional short (3-4) day breaks, and playing non wow games when it starts to be a chore.”

@e_man41: “see: profile pic. Any physical activity is good for stress/burnout relief.” (Pic is him playing hockey.)

@rhyane: “I take at least one, maybe two days off during the week to do crafty stuff or play non-WoW games.”

@stellery: “biggest cause of my burnout is the fact that I didn’t communicate what I was feeling to my officers. and that of course snowballed into a bigger monster and led to my eventual disconnect from the game!”

@Sense_Andrew: “For me, it is only being interested in one facet of the game. I raid. Everything else is a grind to me and burns me out.”

@Technophobia: “I burned out mid-BC from raiding on an EST server while living in PST. Also I was in a guild with delusions of being way more hardcore than they were. I quit raiding, been much happier since.”

@MiniMorvel: “The lack of motivation. I had no goal. It all felt pointless. So I quit but my friends kept dragging me back. Aaaand repeat. I feel like Blizz is trying to make every player have this long-term goal but it’s failed with every expansion.”

We would love to hear what you have to say! Email us at podcast [at] blessingoffrost.com with your thoughts, tips of the week or bumpers for the show or audio comments. And of course, you can follow us (and tweet us!) on Twitter:

Today’s episode of Blessing of Frost has a special guest from the guild Choice on the US Skywall server. Nassi, the recruitment officer from Choice, joins us to chat about different sorts of personalities being drawn to different types of roles in the game. (Choice, 2/7 on 25-man heroic Firelands, by the way, is seeking a hunter, an elemental shaman, a mage, a moonkin and a holy paladin. Check them out now at choiceguild.com!)

For those of you who are as uneducated as Majik is about who Athene is (hint: The Greatest Paladin in the World!), here’s his very first video. It starts out slow, but picks up around the third and especially fourth minutes and is absolutely hilarious to watch if only for the “whoosh, around the corner” thing or the “You’re pro or you’re a noob. That’s life,” sentiment Athene expresses. I’m not particularly a fan of his, but this guy can be hilarious.

We would love to hear what you have to say! Email us at podcast [at] blessingoffrost.com with your thoughts, tips of the week or bumpers for the show or audio comments. And of course, you can follow us (and tweet us!) on Twitter:

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So the nerfs have arrived and boy, is the blogosphere opinionated about this! We sort of have a guest this week. Katarnas (aka Kat) from the guild Otaku on the Chamber of Aspects (EU) realm and the blog Resto Is Epic asked us via email (at podcast [at] blessingoffrost.com!) if we’d be interested in his views on the nerfs as a very casual 10-man raider. We said sure, but because he’s in the UK, he’s five hours ahead of us and recording times this week just didn’t really pan out, so… he sent us an epic audio file of himself talking about the nerfs, chunks of which you’ll find included in this super-long episode! Like, very long. As in, nearly two hours in length. Don’t say we didn’t warn you!

At any rate, that was a new way of having a guest sort of on the show and we really appreciate Kat taking the time to record his thoughts and send them along!

First up, Choice of Skywall is still recruiting! A moonkin, a holy paladin, a holy priest, a mage and an elemental shaman would all be welcome additions to a fun raid team that is currently 1/7 25-man HM in Firelands. Check ’em out!